Tree removal in Myrtle Grove, NC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 6 storm reports near Myrtle Grove that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 28, 2024; March 12, 2022; and April 13, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 4,710 households live in Myrtle Grove. About nine in ten homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1997.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 1 mile from Myrtle Grove, averages 41 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 3 at or below 20°F.

Ice, snow and broken limbs

Source: NOAA Climate Normals

Call the electric utility first and treat the line as live. EIA lists one electric utility with service territory in New Hanover County: Duke Energy Progress.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024